Mech games = dull.

I was in a Turnip Quandry today, with Nook buying for 198 bells. I’m sure I can do better, but 198 is still a reasonable price. So what to do? Well, the same as I do every week, Pinky – try to take over the… uh, I mean, risk it, not sell them, and then hope someone online gets a better price tomorrow. I don’t learn, do I? Anyway. It was still raining, but I did manage to find a …

Hmm. I really didn’t think I was going to like this. It was just going to be “another FPS”, and I’ve had enough of them. I knew there were “gimmicks”, like the walking on walls and portals and stuff, but that’s all I thought there was over any other FPS. I was a bit wrong. The story is great, and unexpected, and the graphics are lovely. The wall (and ceiling) walking is cleverly used, and the portals confuse and impress, …

This was new on Xbox Live Arcade today, so I downloaded the demo and had a look. Why is everything so small? You can’t see a thing! I blame my unusual crapness on that. Yes, that’s it.

Still rubbish turnip prices this week. Of course, I rarely get a decent price anyway, and usually have to rely upon someone else getting a high price for me to sell in their town. Nook offered 74 bells today. Slap him. Nan was trying to move out (again!) today, but I seemed to convince her. I wish I could remember which of my animals wanted the assorted shirts I’ve been buying over the last few days, though, as they’re building …

Yet another briefest of brief visits to Cheese, to check up on my animals (none of which wanted anything, aside from a delivery errand for Margie), and to see turnip prices (63 bells). I’m having a bit of a fossil and gyroid drought at the moment, which is especially odd as it has rained almost every single day for over a week now.

ARSE! Which is what the men shout, of course, and not a reference to how well I played today. Mostly re-did some levels on Hard mode, and did reasonably well there. For fun (or not), I tried Ready Steady Go! on Insane again, and just died. A lot. This really is one of the best games I’ve ever played. If you have a DS, and you don’t have this game, you really need to buy this now!

Seven months I’ve been playing this game. Many times I’ve thought, “Why?” and yet have still kept on playing. I’m in a bit of a dip with it again at the moment, as there’s not much going on and my animals don’t seem keen to give me their pictures. Oh well – I’ll plod on regardless. Turnips were 74 bells, there wasn’t much to buy that I didn’t already have, and nothing much happened.

No, no training today. I don’t do that any more. My brain is too huge as it is. So I spent some time doing sudoku puzzles instead, taking my completion up to 34% done. I mainly did Beginner puzzles, but also did a couple of the Intermediate ones.

Oblivion Gate closing spree! First off, I had to help Captain Burd close the gate outside of Bruma. This was a pretty short task, although Burd’s guards all died within seconds for being rubbish. With my wealth of enchanted items (I have a permanent 43% shield effect now, plus 10% for fire, front and shock, 50% for magic, and 20% reflect damage, on top of my sword of shock and assorted enchanted arrows) I barely suffered a scratch. With the …

Turnip day! I had about 400,000 bells in my pockets, and spent the lot on white turnips costing 101 bells each. I’ve covered the “hard” ground outside my house with them all. Had a new resident today – a bull called Rodeo. He said he wanted to be naked, and then he’d love to walk round town with me. I backed away then. Didn’t do a lot else in Cheese, except find and sell some fossils, and order a shirt …

Two main events in Cheese today. Firstly, I went to see K.K. Slider play at the museum. He performed K.K. Mambo for me. I then realised it was also La-di-day, so went and talked to all my animals who sang assorted songs. I picked Margie’s in the end, to be the new town tune, as it was the first couple of bars from Super Mario Bros, and was therefore ACEBESTNESS. Although I had no turnips to sell, I checked in …

After a week absent from Cyrodill, I thought I should pop back and get on with the main quest. Firstly, I had to go and see Jauffre and Martin again, and then they set me up with a few separate quests. Firstly, I had to go to the north-east of the map, near the Temple of the Ancestor Moths, and find a daedric shrine. I then had to kill some Will o’the Wisps, to get Glow Dust, and then at …

Wendell was about today, so I fed him another of my red turnips, and he gave me another country guitar in return. I think I must have exhausted all of the combinations of stuff he gives out, although I’m still short of some pictures of “non resident” animals. Checked turnip prices just before 11PM, as I’d forgotten to do so earlier, and found Nook buying for 468 bells! Dashed back and sold them all, but couldn’t make it online to …

Nook offered me 80-something for turnips today. I didn’t sell, as I’m expecting a high price at some point this week. Not much else was going on in Cheese. None of my animals are pestering me for stuff, although I have just realised that Bunnie wanted me to deliver a parcel and I forgot to do so. Oops.